Cream Cheese Pancakes: Seeing Is Believing

When I first saw recipes for these cream cheese pancakes floating around the internet, I thought they seemed impossible. NO flour?! I assumed the blogs making them were using some sort of black magic (or sneaking in flour). They looked like perfectly golden crepes, light and airy —exactly what you want when you crave pancakes but you're working on your flawless abs.

With some hesitation I whipped together cream cheese, sugar and eggs. So far, so good. Playing off the cream cheese/cheesecake idea, I decided to add a splash of vanilla for added flavor. The mixture was suspiciously thin, but I had come too far to quit. As I poured the batter into the melted butter in my skillet, it spread like a crepe but managed to maintain some volume. When bubbles started to form on the surface of the pancake, I attempted my first flip. Easy! And perfectly golden. Skeptic no more!

Chelsea Lupkin

I whipped up a sizable stack in no time and was happily eating — all in under 20 minutes! Sure, they're not your classic fluffy pancakes, but they certainly satisfied my craving for a short stack. With barely any sugar and no flour whatsoever, I felt pretty good about it too.